Friday, August 03, 2007
Hidden Painting
DamCat and I (the WP #1, you know, the awesome one) were just watching the news and saw an interesting segment and thought of Web Wabbit. It is very cool and fascinating that something could be there so long and never be found. To see the information on the Van Gogh painting click on the link: Missing Van Gogh painting found
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Wow, how cool is that?! Thanks for the link, very interesting. Van Gogh is one of those painters who you suspect re-used canvases on occasion. It's getting to be routine to x-ray the paintings of some artists, like a treasure hunt. I wonder if under-paintings will be found other pieces of Van Gogh's work?
ReplyDeleteand here's one for the YoungerPea - someone has a Skull-A-Day blog, where he makes a skull out of something or other every day and posts it on his blog. Cool.
ReplyDeletethats a cool blog.. i like it.. some of those tattoos are kind of cool too.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I see.... I agree with him to have painted over it.. although I'm sure that he has many incredible paintings under others.
ReplyDeleteTalking about skulls... anyone remember reading "Clan of the Cave Bear" all those years ago? This article reminded me of it!
ReplyDeleteInteresting discovery - the homo sapiens skull with an exclusively Neanderthal anatomical feature. Wikipedia says ----- For many years, professionals vigorously debated about whether Neanderthals should be classified as Homo neanderthalensis or as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, the latter placing Neanderthals as a subspecies of Homo sapiens. However, evidence from mitochondrial DNA studies have been interpreted as evidence that Neanderthals were not a subspecies of H. sapiens. Recent genetic simulations suggested that 5% of human DNA can only be accounted for by assuming a substantial contribution of Neanderthaler to the European gene pool of up to 25%. Some scientists, for example Milford Wolpoff, argue that fossil evidence suggests that the two species interbred, and hence were the same biological species. Others, for example Cambridge Professor Paul Mellars, say "no evidence has been found of cultural interaction". Note that Vincent Plagnol wrote --- Determining the evolutionary relationships between fossil hominid groups such as Neanderthals and modern humans has been a question of enduring interest in human evolutionary genetics. Here we present a new method for addressing whether archaic human groups contributed to the modern gene pool (called ancient admixture) using the patterns of variation in contemporary human populations. Our method improves on previous work by explicitly accounting for recent population history before performing the analyses. Using sequence data from the Environmental Genome Project, we find strong evidence for ancient admixture in both a European and a West African population with contributions to the modern gene pool of at least 5%. While Neanderthals form an obvious archaic source population candidate in Europe, there is not yet a clear source population candidate in West Africa." The article is Possible ancestral structure in human populations.
ReplyDeleteEven in this day and age the practice of bestiality goes on. Disease is passed on, gene pools disrupted, brains warped.. I find it hard to believe they are examining only ONE skull! And find it so hard to believe/prove the truth of the matter.
ReplyDeleteWell, I guess they only FOUND one skull with that channel feature so far. How many intact skulls might there be in all -- of homo sapiens types and Neanderthal types, not to mention the interbred specimens? The total population of both species can't have amounted to much overall anyway. But who knows what's so bad about our inheriting Neanderthal genes. Their skeletons seem ungraceful to us but maybe they were otherwise pretty cool -- for the times anyway.
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